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...Marines are fatally wounded during a fire fight with Shi'ite militiamen...
...difference between the Israeli and American responses to hostage taking. On July 28, two dozen Israeli commandos staged a daring raid into the southern Lebanese village of Jibchit. Their goal was to seize Obeid, 32, whom the Israelis identify as a spiritual and military leader of the Shi'ite fundamentalist Hizballah (Party of God), a group with close ties to Iran that is holding most of the Western hostages. The Israelis say they wanted Obeid as a bargaining chip to gain release of three Israeli military men taken prisoner in southern Lebanon...
...addition, although his captors claimed to have dumped his body near a hospital in Syrian-controlled territory in Beirut, no trace of Higgins has been found there. Marrack Goulding, U.N. Under Secretary-General of Special Political Affairs, met in Beirut last week with Shi'ite leaders and Iranian embassy personnel in an effort to recover Higgins' body. Though the effort failed, Goulding later told reporters in Damascus that there was "optimism in the air" in Beirut about the release of hostages...
...hopeful trends do little to help the remaining hostages. Some Administration officials are pessimistic about the prospects for a deal as long as one of Hizballah's priorities remains the release of 15 members of a closely affiliated Shi'ite fundamentalist group called Al Dawa (the Call). The 15 are imprisoned in Kuwait for a series of 1983 bomb attacks on the U.S. and French embassies there. Kuwait has stoutly refused Al Dawa's demands for the release of the prisoners, some of whom are relatives of Hizballah leaders. Said a close Bush adviser: "There's a family tie there...
...Marines die during a five-hour rocket and mortar barrage by Shi'ite militiamen...